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OU Libraries’ History of Science digital collection began with several hundred 15th- through 18th-century rare books, maps, and other items digitized for the 2015-2016 Galileo’s World exhibition. They range from art, music, astronomy, and meteorology through natural history, the human body, microscopy, physics, and engineering, and on to religion and travels to China and the Americas. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.

Ratio ponderum libræ et simbellæ : in qua quid è Lotharii Sarsii libra astronomica, quidque è Galilei Galilei Simbellatore, de cometis statuendum sit, collatis utriusque rationum momentis, philosophorum arbitrio proponitur
auctore eodem Lothario Sarsio sigensano., Written as an answer to Galileo's Il Saggiatore, the title of which is burlesqued as Simbellatore (i.e. Zimbellatore)., Lothario Sarsio sigensano is an anagram of Horatio Grassio salonensi., Includes errata., Signatures: [sec.]⁴ A-T⁴., Head- and tail-pieces., Includes bibliographical references and index.
Uranographia sive astrorum descriptio viginti tabulis oeneis incisa ex recentissimis et absolutissimis astronomorum observationibus
Joannis Elerti Bode., "Sumtus commodante illustrissima astronomiae patrona generosissima equite Megalopolitano Friderico de Hahn.", Printed on 20 double leaves.
Cosmographia Petri Apiani
per Gemmam Frisivm apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicū insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoq[ue]: locis aucta. Additis eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmæ Frisii., Colophon: Excusum Antuerpiæ opera Aeg. Diesthemij. Anno à Christo humanæ salutis authore nato, 1545., On verso of last leaf, device (no. 2) of Grégoire de Bonte., Signatures: A-H, K-S⁴; sig. I reserved for map of the world., Leaves signed [Aiii]-[Siiii] are numbered 1-66., Title vignette; initials. Fol. 31-48 in double columns., Revolving diagrams on verso of l. 8 and 11, and on recto of l. 28 and 49., Libellus de locorum describendorvm ratione ... per Gemmam Frisivm: l. 51-57., Vsvs annvli astronomici. Gemma Frisio ... avtore: l. 58-64., For full description see Ortroy, Bibliographie de l'œuvre de Pierre Apian. 1902. no. 36.
Essai sur la geographie mineralogique des environs de Paris, avec une carte geognostique, et des coupes de terrain
par G. Cuvier et Alexandre Brongniart., Has caption title: Memoires de la classe des sciences mathematiques et physiques.
Nouae gnomonices libri quinque
Unpublished autograph manuscript on dialing, with numerous illustrations, by the celebrated Italian polymath Bernardino Baldi., Bernardino Baldo, Urbinate, Guastallae abbate, autore., Statement of responsibility corrected by author with different pen and ink to: Bernardino Baldo, Urbinate, Guastallenesis ecclesiae abbate autore., Holograph., Date from last page.
Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolvtionibvs orbium coelestium. libri VI.
Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quam erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus tum etiam ex recentibus obsernationibus restitutos; & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quam facillime calculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek], Published also under title: Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribunter. Nunc ... restituta ... studio d. Nicolai Mvlerii., Many early marginal manuscript notes., "Narratio prima" by G. J. Rhaticus: [18] l. at end.
Nicolai Tulpii Amstelredamensis Observationes medicæ.
Added t.p., engraved and illustrated., Signatures: *⁸ A-2A⁸ 2B⁴., Title vignette (printer's device)., Head- and tail-pieces.
Ptolemaei mathematic constructionis liber primus grce & latine editus.
Addit explicationes aliquot locorum ab Erasmo Rheinholt Salueldensi.
Trattato del legno fossile minerale nvovamente scoperto nel qvale brevemente si accenna la varia : & mutabil natura di detto legno, rappresentatoui con alcune figure, che mostrano il luogo doue nasce, la diuersità dell'onde, che in esso si vedono, e le su
di Francesco Stellvti, Accad. Linceo., Title within ornamental border., Device of the Accademia nazionale dei Lincei on t.p. and p. 12., Initials, tail piece., De Golyer Collection bookplate.
Principles of geology; being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation.
By Charles Lyell, esq., The word "two" in the phrase "In two volumes" on t.-p. of v.1 changed in manuscript to read 3., Appendices: I. Tables of fossil shells by Monsieur G. P. Deshayes.--II. Lists of fossil shells chiefly collected by the author in Sicily and Italy, named by M. Deshayes., Bibliographical footnotes.
The power of movement in plants.
By Charles Darwin, assisted by Francis Darwin., Freeman 311.
De fvrtivis literarvm notis, vvlgo de ziferis libri IIII.
Ioan. Baptista Porta, Neapolitano avtore.